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Wings of ice: The Mystery of the Polar air Race [Audiobook] download free by Jeff Maynard

Wings of ice: The Mystery of the Polar air Race Audiobook download free by Jeff Maynard
  • Listen audiobook: Wings of ice: The Mystery of the Polar air Race
  • Author: Jeff Maynard
  • Release date: 2010/4/29
  • Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Transportation
  • ISBN: 9781741669343
  • Rating: 7.76 of 10
  • Votes: 422
  • Review by: Tara Kline
  • Review rating: 8.87 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/7
  • Duration: 3H44M40S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-29
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA, MP3, WAV, MPEG4, AIFF (compression TGZ, ZIP, RAR, TBZ2, CAB, AZW4)
  • Total pages original book: 304
  • Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 25M16S (6.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: With the rise of aviation at the beginning of the twentieth century, daring men were finally able to explore the Earth's final frontiers - the Arctic and Antarctic wildernesses. Hoping to resurrect his fading career, the legendary Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen desperately wanted to fly over the North Pole. American naval commander Richard Byrd was determined to beat Amundsen to the prize. An Australian adventurer, George Hubert Wilkins, also joined the competition, initiating a rivalry with Byrd that would last years and take them to the ends of the Earth. The world watched in fascination as the air race to the North Pole escalated, until in May 1926 Byrd claimed to have reached it in his Fokker Trimotor, the Josephine Ford. But did he really succeed? In 1928, while Amundsen was involved in the bitter dispute that would cost him his life, Byrd announced he would fly to the South Pole. Wilkins was hired by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst to beat him. The competitors unloaded their planes on opposite sides of Antarctica and prepared for the last great race in polar history.In a carefully researched and thrillingly written narrative, author Jeff Maynard recounts the breathtaking 'Race to the Poles', restoring the remarkable aviator and explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins - an exceptional but forgotten Australian hero - to his rightful place as a pioneer of scientific exploration. Wings of Ice also examines Admiral Richard Byrd's much-disputed claim to have flown to the North Pole, providing the definitive solution to an intriguing eighty-year-old mystery.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Geographical Discovery & Exploration, Aircraft, History Of Other Lands, Historical Geography, Expeditions
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 21.21 USD
  • Dimensions: 152.4x228.6x22.86mm
  • Weight: 340.19g
  • Printed by: Vintage (Australia)
  • Published in: Milsons Point, Australia

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